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Against ‘Diversity Statements’
- xibalba 5y agoI’m increasingly convinced that vast swaths of “higher ed” should be made ineligible for federal student loans. They are more and more religious-ish, spread divisive and noxious ideology, and they churn out massively indebted people with very little in the way of socially beneficial skill.
- crackercrews 5y agoSome in academia say it's not just religious-ish, but actually religious. Professor John McWhorter has a book coming out on this next week: Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. [1] 1: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B095JLK96B https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B095JLK96B
- rich_sasha 5y agoAs a, hopefully, rational and religious person, I'm quite relieved to see that insanity and dogmatism are not unique to traditional religions. I also hope this whole debacle stays in the US. It's spilling over, but is nowhere near as bad in Europe.
- pas 5y ago> rational and religious person ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay, okay, being aware of your biases is half the battle after all!
- Ekaros 5y agoSadly it seems to have spilled here. There was in news at least some articles how horrible is that geography students had people play an old children's board game from 50s. With somewhat dated art and maybe slight undertone of colonialism, but still nothing overt. And some how the University of Helsinki ended up offering crisis support for people involved...
- virtuous_signal 5y agoAcademia may seem quaint but often accurately signals what is to come in the rest of the professional managerial class. Last year during an interview (software engineering) I was asked what I would do to support Diversity Equity and Inclusion. It was towards the end with other behavioral questions. I think I recited the Correct things but to be safe I should probably start studying Ibram X Kendi along with Cracking the Coding Interview.
- WalterGR 5y agoWhat company was it? Is that event what inspired you to post and comment so much against diversity?
- khazhoux 5y agoThere is no need to scour users’ comment history. It’s not relevant to the discussion here. And it’s rude.
- WalterGR 5y agoThe user posted about their personal experience and I asked them about their personal experience. There was no scouring of comment history. The user's name is virtuous_signal and I was curious if that was a reference to "virtue signaling."
- oliv__ 5y agoBy "Correct things", do you mean asking: "how is diversity and inclusion my job?"
- burkaman 5y agoI guess you could argue about diversity if you want to, but equity and inclusion have been part of every manager's job since the beginning of time.
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- jph00 5y agohttps://archive.md/xVoU6 https://archive.md/xVoU6
- worik 5y ago“to treat every person as a unique individual, not as a representative of their gender or their ethnic group.” Not being a bigot is not a matter of ideology. It is a matter of character.
- hw-guy 5y agoIronically, that formerly noncontroversial statement would be considered "racist" by today's wokesters.
- systemvoltage 5y agoPresident Obama on woke ideology pointing out to what his daughters are learning in our education systems: https://youtu.be/qaHLd8de6nM https://youtu.be/qaHLd8de6nM
- elzbardico 5y agoIt seems unavoidable that America will completely lose her relevance in the space of a generation
- bm3719 5y agoGreat empires always die from internal rot. As we fritter away our opportunity, others will fill the void. Perhaps ironically in this case, we'll eventually find ourselves with new masters that don't care about things like diversity and inclusion.
- gvv 5y agoThe problem with "diversity" is that it's never enough, no tangible metric.